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If someone is straight-up copying me/us and my/our ideas, is that considered flattery... or something else? And when it happens often, does that change things, or not?

I'm just sayin'.

George update.

Philip's dad had surgery for his cancer yesterday. It was about nine hours or so, and they removed everything. We had all been hoping that the colon would be salvageable, but everything had to go. He will have a permanent colostomy bag for the rest of his life now, and that's what he so hoping against. There was also some on his pelvic bone, and they removed a bit of that as well. Philip got the report from his brother, and he didn't ask the specifics of the tumors on his kidneys, so at this moment, I'm not sure if they were removed or not (the plan as I had last heard it said that the kidney specialist would be doing his part first, and then the main surgery would be second).

We would be home in West Virginia with them now, but we are stuck here waiting on something in the mail, without which we can't leave. As soon as it comes, we're out of here bright and early the next morning. George will be in ICU for three days, and he'll be in the hospital for a week. The boys won't be able to pounce on him and give him a hug, but we will be there.

Just as soon as we can. This waiting-on-tenterhooks is awful.